Oddly high load average

2008-11-07 Thread Damian Gerow
The load average on my machine is inexplicably high; when idle, it sits up between 0.6 and 0.7. Though I'm running a snapshot from last night, I've seen the same behaviour since I first installed a 4.4 snapshot from about three weeks ago. This is on a Lenovo X200. As I understand it, load

Re: Oddly high load average

2008-11-07 Thread Damian Gerow
Mark Zimmerman wrote: : I bet you could get your load average to drop if you forced your cpu : to run full speed even when doing nothing. I am guessing that this is : not really what you want. Not only would that not fix it, it doesn't make any sense, either. If my machine has no workload,

Re: Oddly high load average

2008-11-07 Thread Damian Gerow
Theo de Raadt wrote: : The load average on my machine is inexplicably high; when idle, it sits up : between 0.6 and 0.7. : : Oh my god, the horror. Nothing is wrong with your machine at all. : However, I have a diff which will probably keep you happy. Not sure if you caught my last paragraph,

Re: Oddly high load average

2008-11-07 Thread Damian Gerow
Theo de Raadt wrote: : Looks like you don't know the algorithms used to calculate the number. : But it is clearly beyond your skills to go read the source. I would assume you're referring to uvm_loadav in uvm_meter.c? That's where I'm looking. I was hoping for a little English to help me with

Re: Duplicate incoming packets to multiple destinations using pf

2008-11-05 Thread Damian Gerow
Simen Stavdal wrote: :1) Less configuration on the devices (and also less load, though not a :big problem anymore). This is not really a problem for small :installations, but once you have 500+ devices to configure, it is easy :to do the maths. You should always have systems in

Re: Duplicate incoming packets to multiple destinations using pf

2008-11-05 Thread Damian Gerow
Simen Stavdal wrote: : I am not trying to escape the fact that one needs systems in place : to manage large installations, I am merely looking for what *I* : think would be a better way to deploy resources. I'm just going to drop this part of the thread. : As a service

Re: Duplicate incoming packets to multiple destinations using pf

2008-11-05 Thread Damian Gerow
Simen Stavdal wrote: : Worth submitting a feature request? : --- I looks like this would be the best solution --- Sounds like you have your desired solution. So long as the OBSD developers accept your request as valid. : --- The subject of my posting is Duplicating incoming

Re: Duplicate incoming packets to multiple destinations using pf

2008-11-04 Thread Damian Gerow
Claer wrote: : Thanks for the answer, I guess dup-to isn4t the right tool then... : Has anyone tried to achieve what I am trying to do though? : I am obviously open to other ideas. : Maybe I'll give you a wrong path but, did you looked at proxying the : trap with net-snmp ? : Direct the

Re: Random crashes with Intel D945GCLF2

2008-10-11 Thread Damian Gerow
Robert wrote: On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 23:10:02 +0200 (CEST) Mark Kettenis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just committed a fix for the dmesg corruption problem. This may also fix the random crashes you were saying. Current snapshots should already have the fix. Boy, those Intel-branded boards have

Re: Random crashes with Intel D945GCLF2

2008-10-09 Thread Damian Gerow
Mark Kettenis wrote: I just committed a fix for the dmesg corruption problem. This may also fix the random crashes you were saying. Current snapshots should already have the fix. Thanks, Mark! I'll give it a shot tonight and report back with the results. Boy, those Intel-branded boards

Re: Random crashes with Intel D945GCLF2

2008-10-08 Thread Damian Gerow
On Tue 08/10/07 20:02, Damian Gerow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sevan / Venture37 wrote: Are you running the latest version of the BIOS on the board?? http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354029/direct/01/ Ah, yes, I knew I forgot to include something. I also updated the BIOS to the latest

Random crashes with Intel D945GCLF2

2008-10-07 Thread Damian Gerow
Release: 4.4 snapshot as of 2008/06/10 Platform: amd64 UP and MP Hardware: Intel Atom 330 on D945GCLF2 I picked up an Intel D945GCLF2 last week to play with, and it's been fairly unstable. Specifically, it randomly just freezes: no ddb, no error messages, it just hangs. When it's hung, the

Re: Random crashes with Intel D945GCLF2

2008-10-07 Thread Damian Gerow
Sevan / Venture37 wrote: Are you running the latest version of the BIOS on the board?? http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354029/direct/01/ Ah, yes, I knew I forgot to include something. I also updated the BIOS to the latest revision today, and re-ran all the tests, to the exact same conclusion.

Re: OT: quiet fans and heatsinks

2006-06-05 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake J.C. Roberts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05/06/06 05:20]: : Most people just don't get it. The equation is simple: : : HEAT * TIME And, as someone else has more elegantly pointed out: COOL != LOUD A well-designed cooling system can keep your system running cooler than with stock

Re: OT: quiet fans and heatsinks

2006-06-05 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake J.C.Roberts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05/06/06 08:35]: : You're right that well designed cooling systems can make things run : cooler and with less noise but more importantly, there's only one way to : determine if various cooling systems are actually well designed; namely, : you have to go

Re: ALTQ priq: bandwidth or no?

2006-05-13 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Jeff Quast ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [11/05/06 09:22]: : On 5/11/06, Damian Gerow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I'm not interested in bandwidth limitations, so it looks like priq is : likely my best bet. : [...] : Then I create a queue with a bandwidth limit of 700Kbps. : : The man page

Re: ALTQ priq: bandwidth or no?

2006-05-13 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Melameth, Daniel D. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [13/05/06 20:06]: : It would seem altq wants a bandwidth declaration. However, from man 5 : pf.conf: : : If bandwidth is not specified, the interface bandwidth is used. And OpenBSD complains bitterly when not defining the bandwidth on a

ALTQ priq: bandwidth or no?

2006-05-11 Thread Damian Gerow
After a bandwidth incident a few hours ago, I'm starting to look at doing some queuing on my (unfortunately) asynchronous link at home. But as I'm doing so, I've got a few questions. I'm not interested in bandwidth limitations, so it looks like priq is likely my best bet. If I declare my altq

Re: PF and PPTP

2006-05-10 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Bruno Carnazzi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [10/05/06 01:37]: : My home PF NATing gateway route just one PPTP tunnel (for my laptop), : and I don't need special thing for it to work (GRE enabled via sysctl : and pf must pass GRE proto). Is there a special case when you have : multiple PPTP (GRE)

PF and PPTP

2006-05-09 Thread Damian Gerow
I find myself in a situation where I need to route a few PPTP tunnels through a NATing PF gateway. Because of the usage of GRE, I'm aware that I need to enable GRE via sysctl, and that I'll need to run the connections through a proxy. However, I'm having a hard time digging up a proxy I've got

Re: Empty root password

2006-05-06 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Jonathan Glaschke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [06/05/06 16:58]: : Think of somebody who burgles your house to steal your privat data. When : your computer asks him to enter the password he sure will try the well : known standard passwords like god, secret and sex. Or maybe : swordfish. But

Re: Via EPIA boards

2006-04-19 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Timo Schoeler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [18/04/06 08:33]: : hm. somehow missing ECC et al. keeps me from deploying such systems on : a regular basis... even when they're 'only' x86. The systems, as much as I love 'em, are missing a few crucial 'features': 1) Proper RAID support 2) 3+ NIC

Re: no internet with cable provider (videotron.ca)

2006-03-20 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Peter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [21/03/06 01:46]: : Was the Win2k box connected first? Many (most?) Canadian cable : providers : cache the MAC address of the connected machine, and generally : speaking, : unplugging the cable modem for five minutes should re-set the cached : address :

Re: restore question: is my dump hosed?

2006-03-19 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Joachim Schipper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20/03/06 00:34]: : Provided that you didn't do something strange when copying the dump, it : should - at least - be restorable on something that closely resembles : the platform it was taken on (FreeBSD-6.x). I believe the default FS type in

ral(4) troubles

2005-06-13 Thread Damian Gerow
I've spent the past few days trying to get a wireless LAN working off my OpenBSD gateway. There's a few interfaces in there, and I just moved to a house that uses WiFi a fair bit. I thought I'd do the bridging right on the gateway, so there's one less device running. After a spate of other

Re: ral(4) troubles

2005-06-13 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Damian Gerow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [13/06/05 20:55]: : house that uses WiFi a fair bit. I thought I'd do the bridging right on the Ack. 'bridging' is the wrong word; I'm definitely not bridging networks here.

Re: 3.7CDs arrived today...

2005-05-06 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Ben Goren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [06/05/05 11:42]: : But do you complain to the record companies about their jewel cases? For the record, I've never, ever received a broken jewel case for a music CD that's been shipped in the mail (dozens of CDs). But from OpenBSD, it's been broken both